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Asteracanthus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	34484	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=34484

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Hybodontiformes : Acrodontidae : Asteracanthus

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
class	Chondrichthyes	Huxley 1880
subclass	Elasmobranchii	Bonaparte 1838
infraclass	Euselachii
-	Hybodontida
order	Hybodontiformes
superfamily	Hybodontoidea	Zangerl 1981
family	Acrodontidae	Casier 1959
subfamily	Acrodontinae	Maisey 1989
genus	Asteracanthus	Agassiz 1837

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Asteracanthus	genus	belongs to Ichthyodorulites	stated with evidence	Leidy, 1873
Asteracanthus	genus	belongs to Cestraciontidae	stated with evidence	Woodward, 1889
Asteracanthus	genus	belongs to Cestraciontidae	stated without evidence	Chapman and Pritchard, 1904
Asteracanthus	genus	belongs to Heterodontidae	stated without evidence	Jordan and Hanibal, 1923
Asteracanthus	genus	belongs to Hybodontidae	stated with evidence	Tabaste, 1963
Asteracanthus	genus	belongs to Ctenacanthida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Asteracanthus	genus	belongs to Acrodontidae	stated with evidence	Delsate, 2003
Asteracanthus	genus	belongs to Acrodontinae	stated with evidence	Rees and Underwood, 2008

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

260 - 254 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

7.25 - 3.60 Ma
Neogene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Chondrichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Chondrichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

L. Agassiz. 1837. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 8-9). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Asteracanthus acutus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Asteracanthus aegyptiacus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Asteracanthus granulosus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Asteracanthus magnus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	176 Ma Early Jurassic	161 Ma Jurassic
Asteracanthus medius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Asteracanthus minor ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Asteracanthus ornatissimus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Asteracanthus papillosus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Asteracanthus semisulcatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Asteracanthus siderius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Asteracanthus somaensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Asteracanthus tenuis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	161 Ma Jurassic	161 Ma Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1837	Asteracanthus Agassiz p. 31
1867	Curtodus Sauvage
1873	Asteracanthus Leidy p. 353
1889	Asteracanthus Woodward p. 307
1904	Asteracanthus Chapman and Pritchard p. 271
1916	Asteracanthus Woodward p. 16
1923	Asteraganthus Jordan and Hanibal p. 32
1963	Asteracanthus Jordan p. 595

Year	Name and Author
1963	Curtodus Jordan p. 595
1963	Asteracanthus Tabaste p. 460
1981	Asteracanthus Rieppel p. 335
1987	Asteracanthus Maisey p. 27
2002	Asteracanthus Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Asteracanthus Delsate p. 4
2008	Asteracanthus Rees and Underwood p. 132
2018	Asteracanthus Romano et al.

References

Agassiz L. , Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 8-9). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, viii-72

Leidy J. Part I. Contributions to the extinct vertebrate fauna of the western territories, Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 1, 1-358

Woodward A. S. , Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1, 1-613

Chapman F., Pritchard G. B. (1904) Fossil fish remains from the Tertiaries of Australia, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 17, 267-297

Woodward A. S. (1916) The fossil fishes of the English Wealden and Purbeck Formations, Palaeontographical Society, London 1915, 1-48

Jordan D. S., Hanibal H. (1923) Fossil sharks and rays of the Pacific slope of North America, Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 22, 27-63

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Tabaste N. (1963) Étude derestes de poissons du Crétacé saharien [Study of fish remains from the Saharan Cretaceous], Mélanges Ichthyologiques Dédiés à la Mémoire d’Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865). Mémoires de l’Institute Français d’Afrique Noire 68, 437-485

Rieppel O. (1981) The Hybodontiform Sharks from the Middle Triassic of Mte. San Giorgio, Switzerland, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 161, 324-353

Maisey J. G. (1987) Cranial anatomy of the Lower Jurassic shark Hybodus reticulatus (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii), with comments on hybodontid systematics, American Museum Novitates 2878, 1-19

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Delsate D. (2003) Une nouvelle faune des poissons et requins Toarciens du sud du Luxembourg (Dudelange) et de L'Allemange (Schömberg), Bulletin de l'Académie Lorrain des Sciences 42, 13-49

Rees J., Underwood C. (2008) Hybodont sharks of the English Bathonian and Callovian (Middle Jurassic), Palaeontology 51 1, 117-147

Romano M., Citton P., et al (2018) First report of hybodont shark from the Toarcian Rosso Ammonitico Formation of Umbria-Marche Apennine (Polino area, Terni, Central Italy), Italian Journal of Geosciences 137, 151-159

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